https://deploy-preview-5702--lima-vm.netlify.app/docs/faq/Recent content in FAQs on LimaHugoenhttps://deploy-preview-5702--lima-vm.netlify.app/docs/faq/colima/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-5702--lima-vm.netlify.app/docs/faq/colima/<h2 id="how-does-lima-relate-to-colima">&ldquo;How does Lima relate to Colima?&rdquo;</h2> <p><a href="https://github.com/abiosoft/colima">Colima</a> is a third-party project that wraps Lima to provide an alternative user experience for launching containers.</p> <p>The key difference is that Colima launches Docker by default, while Lima launches containerd by default.</p> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Container</th> <th>Lima</th> <th>Colima</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>containerd</td> <td><code>limactl start</code></td> <td><code>colima start --runtime=containerd</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Docker</td> <td><code>limactl start template:docker</code></td> <td><code>colima start</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Podman</td> <td><code>limactl start template:podman</code></td> <td>-</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kubernetes (k3s)</td> <td><code>limactl start template:k3s</code></td> <td><code>colima start --kubernetes</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kubernetes (kubeadm)</td> <td><code>limactl start template:k8s</code></td> <td>-</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>The <code>colima</code> CLI is similar to the <code>limactl</code> CLI, but there are subtle differences:</p>